Portland Archives | Top Interactive Agencies

Based in Rotterdam, Strakzat is a digital design agency that shapes ideas into meaningful digital products and engaging experiences. Formed by a small team of interactive designers, we talked to Jasper den Ouden, who besides being an UX Designer, he is also one of the agency’s founders, to find out more about Strakzat’s daily work and its discovery process.

Karyn Pascoe, has been appointed as the new Chief Creative Officer at Beyond. With an extensive experience across product and marketing, she will be now heading up creative across the agency’s studios and will be based out of San Francisco.

Business has been good from the start to Ruckus, which in three of the last four years, the agency has been listed on the Inc. 5000 List of the fastest-growing private companies in America. We catch up with Madelene Eng, Lead UX/UI Designer at Ruckus, who gave us an insight into the beating heart of the company.

Founded in New Orleans in 2012, Velocity Agency is a full-service digital marketing agency that is on the cutting edge of technology. Moe Ahsan, its Digital Marketing Manager, describes the main features of the agency and gives us a look at its daily work, highlighting the importance of a good relationship with clients.

Emojis are so likable by people and so used in social media that it even has its own celebration day. But how emojis were created and which was the first one? On this article we take a look back at the beginning of emojis and how digital agencies celebrated #WorldEmojiDay on the 17th of July. Don’t miss it!

Italian agency glueglue, has a passionate and highly motivated digital and print design team. According to Matteo Lo Manto, UX Designer and Co-Founder at the agency, they tested and tried different approaches to define a well-structured plan for their design process; which now consists on six-steps.

Codedesign’s Founder believes that Dynamic Creative Optimization is a huge breakthrough in the way brands and advertisers can delivering the correct message to a receptive customer. On this interview, Bruno Gavino talks about the evolution of DCO and the impact it might have for brands and marketers.

The global leader in E-commerce and E-payment solutions for loyalty programs, Loylogic, announced its entrance into the Buy-Gift-Transfer market with its new BGT-module by offering a state of the art technology platform combined with excellent commercials.

One of the most celebrated holidays across countries, it’s their Independence Day, and certainly one of the biggest is the one from the United States, which is every 4th of July. On that day, digital agencies from USA were closed, but anyway, all of them celebrated this day through social media. Take a look!

Chris Breikss granted TIA an exclusive interview on the merger of Drive Digital and 6S Marketing. Launched yesterday, Major Tom is the new full-service interactive agency that’s been purpose-built to help clients thrive in today’s complex marketing landscape. On this interview, Chris gives us the inside track in the deal to form Major Tom.

Major Tom, a full-service agency that’s been purpose-built to help clients thrive in today’s increasingly complex marketing landscape; launched in New York, Toronto, and Vancouver today. The new agency was formed after a merger between award-winning agencies 6S Marketing and Drive Digital.

With offices in London, Amsterdam and Paris, Chunk Agency has been awarded internationally and was chosen as Nº1 digital agency in the Emerce Top 100 Agencies. On this interview, UX designer Jordi Wesche, describes his design process and gives us a sneak peek on the daily work at the agency and the key challenges in his specific tasks.

Last week, Cannes Lions Advertising Festival took place in the south of France, gathering media and marketing executives, creative directors, and advertising salespeople to debate the future of the industry. Despite the festival’s creative emphasis, this years’ edition was dominated by technology, AR, VR and its role in the advertising /media world.

Mobile phones and social media are nowadays an important part of our lives, which is why since 2014, every 21st of June is the National Selfie Day. From UK to United States, agencies celebrated the day by taking a selfie and of course, by sharing it on their Facebook, Twitter or Instagram profiles. Take a look!

Design and technology firm Beyond, helps companies to create market value with design and tech-based products and strategies. One of the key players at the agency is Matthew Iliffe, who became Founding Partner in 2010 and since then, has head up creative and technology across Beyond’s different offices. On this interview, he describes his professional path and current role and the agency’s daily processes.

Brands are evolving and rather than being passive receivers of messages, experimental marketers trust that costumers should be actively involved in the experience and developing a relationship with the brand. Find on this article some of the best campaign examples that we came across regardless Experiential Marketing.

Since The Reference, a cutting-edge digital agency, opened its doors in 1993, it has seen a big expansion. An important part of it has been Olivier Deneef, who works nowadays as Chief Commercial Officer in the New York City office. On this interview he remembers his first steps on the industry and why following his career at The Reference was a natural evolution.

Beyond recently announced the appointment of Judy Gibbons as Chair, who has over 25 years of experience in Product marketing, E-Commerce, Digital media and International business strategy. Aside from her advisory roles, she has been named two times as one of the most influential European Business Women and one of Time Magazine’s “People to Watch in International Business.”